AHC Potaissa Turda explained

Clubname:	Potaissa Turda
Fullname:	AHC Potaissa Turda
Short Name:	Potaissa
Capacity:	650
Chairman:	Flaviu Sâsâeac
Manager:	Horațiu Gal
League:	Liga Națională
Season:	2021–22
Position:	Liga Națională, 4th of 14
Website:	https://ahcpotaissa.ro/
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AHC Potaissa Turda is a men's handball club from Turda, Romania, that plays in the Romanian Handball League. Potaissa Turda is a notable Romanian team in the last decade. In the last four years, is the only team that have qualified to the Final 4 of the national championships, in every season. Potaissa Turda won the EHF Challenge Cup in 2018, after a final against AEK Athens.

Turda was promoted to the first division in 2011.

Potaissa Turda's fairytail story began back in 2007, when their home sports hall, Gheorghe Baritiu, was inaugurated and the team's players could play finally in Turda. For example, one of the squad's members was the actual team president, Flaviu Constantin Sâsâeac, who used to play for Turda, and also being the team president, since 2003.

Another reason why Potaissa's early success is not that surprising, can be that the club has more youth squads, around 220 children and young players representing Turda in national competitions.^[1]

Honours

EHF European Cup
- - - Winners (1): 2017–18 Runners-up (1): 2016–17
Liga Națională
- Third place (4): 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate

2014–15	EHF Cup	Q1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	32–25	35-30	67–55
		Q2	Junior Fasano	28-27	39-26	67–53
		Q3	RK Nexe	20-35	26-23	46–58

2016–17	EHF Challenge Cup	R3	HC Dobrudja	32–23	43–19	75–42
		1/8	Handball Esch	31–27	28–29	59–56
		QF	HB Dudelange	32–29	36–35	68–64
		SF	Valur	22–30	32–23	54–53
		F	Sporting CP	28–37	24–30	52–67

For the first time in their short history, AHC Potaissa Turda have reached the Challenge Cup finals for the second year running. After the loss from a year before, against Sporting CP, Turda had the power to come back stronger, winning the first major trophy for the city from Cluj county. By beating AEK H.C. with 59-49 on aggregate, Potaissa Turda became the fourth team from Romania to ever lift the Challenge Cup, after Steaua Bucharest,^[2] UCM Reșița (three times between 2007 and 2009^[3]) and HC Odorhei.^[4]

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate

2017–18	EHF Challenge Cup	R3	KH Trepça	35-19	40-30	75–49
		1/8	HC Visé BM	44-24	24-29	68–53
		QF	FyllingenBergen	29-24	30-32	59–56
		SF	IBV Vestmannaeyjar	28-31	28-24	56–55
		F	AEK H.C.	33-22	26-27	59–49

2018–19	EHF Cup	Q1	FC Porto	21-41	24-27	45-68

2019–20	EHF Challenge Cup	R3	TENAX Dobele	38-35	32-32	70-67
		1/8	BSV Bern	36-33	33-35	69-68
		QF	AEK H.C.	CANCELLED

2020–21	EHF European League	Q1	HRK Gorica	24-26	32-27	56-53
2020–21	EHF European League	Q2	Fenix Toulouse Handball	35-35	27-31	62-66

Current squad

Squad for the 2022–23 season

Goalkeepers

Mihai Popescu
George Șelaru

Wingers

Roland Thalmaier
Daniel Pop

LW:

Răzvan Pavel
Alexandru Ghivil

Line players

Huba Talas
Gabriel Dumitriu

Back players

Georgică Cîntec
Radu Lazăr
Teodor Pinţoiu
Milos Dragas
Luka Groff

CB:

Marius Szőke
Janja Vojvodic

RB:

Radu Cristian Ghiță
Rusu Daniel

Technical staff

Staff for the 2019–20 season

Head Coach

Horațiu Gal

Assistant

Ionuț Ștef

Masseur

Ionuț Mercean

Club President

Flaviu Sâsâeac

Head of Youth Department

Aurel Oroian

Sports Director

Cosmin Sălăjan

External links

Official website